Obraz rodziny osób skazanych za działalność w podziemiu antykomunistycznym w wybranych prośbach o ułaskawienie pisanych do Bolesława Bieruta
An Image of the Familes of Individuals Sentenced for Anti-Communist Underground Activities in Selected Requests for Pardon Submitted to Bolesław Bierut

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the lives of the families of Polish independence underground activists sen-tenced by the communist justice system. To illustrate this issue, requests for pardon submitted toBolesław Bierut by convicted individuals and their family members have been analyzed. The re-search material, which includes a total of sixty-seven requests written between 1946 and 1953, hasbeen narrowed down to the activists of the Special Action Emergency Service – National MilitaryUnion commanded by Tadeusz Gajda, aka Tarzan, and the Tarnów section of the Freedom and In-dependence Association. Using classic document analysis and the technique of internal and formalexamination of documents, the author has distinguished several categories, including the families’living conditions, state of health, upbringing of children, emotional state, and the role of familymembers, which proved useful in describing a semblance of family life during the imprisonment ofone of its members, convicted of „hostile activities aimed at the political system of the Polish state”.

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